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Key Abrahamic Motifs: Theophany Encounters
And I will fetch a morsel bread, and comfort your hearts … (Gen. 18:5, KJV) Throughout the patriarchal narratives we find mysterious encounters with the mal’ak YHWH (“Messenger of YHWH”). Judging from the reaction of those who meet Him, and the person in which the Being speaks (sometimes in the first person speaking as God),…
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Key Abrahamic Motifs: Trees
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2014 by ancienthopes So Abraham moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the Oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord. Genesis 13:18 In his many years of living in and traveling throughout the Promised Land (some 100 years!), it…
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Isaac the Fortunate
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel, and said to the servant, “who is the man yonder walking in the field…